Gianni Amelio

Paolo (Andrea Rossi) is a young man who was abandoned by his father and who was born so soon after his mother died during childbirth. Grown up, he will be joined by his father in a series of tests that will do.

The story of two Sicilian brothers who emigrate to the northern Italian city of Turin is told over a six-year period (1958-1964), with each year represented by a dramatic vignette from one day in their lives. (Film Forum)

Labourer Vincenzo travels from Italy to China in search of a machine with a deficiency that was produced in the now defunct establishment at which Vincenzo worked for years. (imdb)

Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. But the youngest italian, Gino, once alone with Spiro, encounter a few problems. Far from his roots, loosing his identity in deep Albania, he begins to change... (imdb)

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends. (imdb)

Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he killed his superior who sacked him, he kills the man who replaced him, and he kills his own wife. He wants a quick trial and an early execution, but an earnest, principled assistant judge looks for a way to save the murderer from being shot, because he does not belive in capital punishment. Although he manages to save the man initially, he will pay a high price for it. (imdb)

Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy come flooding back. (tiff.net)

A story about duty and freedom nuances. About social walls and mixture between past and present. About the other as projection of your desire.About silence and strange skin of words, about images and discoveries, about measure of understanding and price of frustration. (imdb)

Antonio Pane lives in Milan. He has a peculiar job: he works as a 'replacement', substituting the absentees from any kind of activity. One day he may work as a brick layer, the next one as a motorman and so on. Antonio is a deeply lonely man: his wife left him to join a man with a far better outlook, his son studies contralto saxophone in conservatory and tries to help the father. One day, while taking a certification exam, Antonio meets a young woman, Lucia, to whom he offers his selfless help. (mymovies.it)

A young man moves into an apartment where an actor has just committed suicide. In it there is a room with closets full of objects and theatrical posters of old movies. (Filmaffinity)

Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he meets Michela.

The lives of a group of highly-gifted young physicists known as the Via Panisperna Boys, led by Enrico Fermi. One of them, Ettore Majorana, mysteriously disappeared in 1938. (imdb)

The last year of Bettino Craxi's life, one of the most important and controversial Italian leaders of the 1980s (imdb)

In Naples in the second half of the sixteenth century the writer and philosopher Tommaso Campanella lived in a hostile and dangerous climate due to the rise of the Counter-Reformation in Italy after the Council of Trent in 1545.

Professor Heines, an English art critic living in Tuscany in the 1930s with his family, realizes the incredible intellectual capacity of Guido, the son of a farmer and orphan of a mother. Stimulated by the scholar, the boy shows a great talent for music and, above all, for mathematics. When Heines returns to England for a short period of time, Guido is adopted by Mrs. Bondi, who owns the land where his father lives and works. (FILMAFFINITY)

The film takes us on a voyage to a hidden Italy rarely addressed on film: Gay Italy as it was lived in the 20th century, from the turn of the century up to the 80s. The documentary gives voice to those who personally had to bear the weight of being "different", remembering how their lives were shaped by this situation during Fascism and in the aftermath of World War II, in an anthropologically and culturally widely diverse nation. (imdb)

The trial of Aldo Braibanti.